Buy ONE Day Get 2009 For Free!

So here we are! Another year, another chance for me to try not to screw my life up. Success so far!

Here's some news-worthy notes about my year so far:

1) Not only have I become comfortable in my job, but I have also become increasingly bored of it! Hurray for me for graduating into true adulthood: job-despise. It's true. Jobs suck. They call it the daily grind for a reason: I feel like my brain cells are grinding with boredom daily. I don't hate my position or the company, but I can't stand doing the same thing over and over and over each day. Time to add some variety to my schedule? I think yes.

2) I starred in my first full-length stage production in California! It's true! I was part of the Simi Valley Cultural Art Center's production of THE PRODUCERS, spanning 7 weeks of shows, and LOVED it. Although, 4 or 5 weeks would have been just as satisfying...or perhaps moreso. Hm...

3) I gots me a boyfriend--YES a REAL one! And he's great and funny and makes me dinner. Yoink!

So to sum, 2009 has so far been a fairly spectacular year, minus a few slight dips here and there. I went to Disneyland for the first time, added a music video to my resume (go LETRON! Woot!), and got a microwave, too! Spectacular may even be a poor representation of how awesome my life in California has been. I'm great, L.A. is great, driving 30 minutes to the ocean is GREAT, and life is beautiful.

Sigh.

Window Washer Fail

This one's just for EMarsh!

Shrimp Walk, performed to "L.A. Love Story" by LETRON

Take it for what it is and enjoy...

A Short "Tail"

Jason Mraz recently wrote in his blog about a cat he had to put to sleep on Christmas Eve. He is a fairly decent story teller, although perhaps anything he says seems dreamy to me...hmmm...At any rate, I felt this posting was appropriate:

We had a dog when I was growing up named Sweet Pea. She was small and gray and fluffy and so sweet she gave you a toothache, so you can see her name was fitting. Being a family dog, I had a certain connection with her, as the rest of my siblings and parents probably did. After years of deteriorating health, limping limbs, and lost eye sight, I came home one day to find she was not there. I was told she had been put to sleep. That was almost 15 years ago.

...I only recently found out she had indeed NOT been put to sleep but had been found in the middle of winter frozen down on the running trail by our house. My brothers had been out looking for her and found her peacefully resting on a very frozen and snowy hillside.

This opened up an entirely new wave of questions about my childhood and "lost" pets of the like. I often question the endings to many of my pets' lives: the guinea pig we found on top of the garbage can coming home from church one day, the babies of other guinea pigs that had all been "sent away to good homes," etc.

I suppose I may not want to know the answers to those questions, and I suppose it's best I don't.

Cyber Crush

I've recently discovered a website that is so absurdly hilarious I had to write to the guy who runs/writes it. As a human who appreciates humor and holds it on a pedestal above almost all else, I think he is a mastermind at his craft, keeping my eyes watering until the very last heave of my continuous laughter.

Basically his site is dedicated to the telling of stories stretched just a bit to the realm of untrue yet trickle through real-life situations like a bead of rain on your car windshield...or something like that.

Anyhoo, in all the presumptuous, cocky being that I am, I felt it necessary to tell this cyber-crush of mine that he was on my mind. I awoke this morning with his response in my inbox and couldn't help but laugh out loud. Check out his site and see for yourself! Just be wary of laughter-induced comas...they'll getchya.

NOTE: In my colleagues' defense, I actually DO enjoy talking to them about whatever is on their (or my) mind and they are truly an invigorating, entertaining group of individuals. Just p.s.


So my email went like this:

Hi,

You're fabulous. Thanks for making me laugh at work while I contemplate whether or not having food to eat and a place to sleep each night is worth pretending to care about what my co-workers talk at me about.

Peacefully sincere,
Girl with a crush on your words


AND the reply:


Dear Katy

Every so often, I receive an email that I really enjoy reading. Yours was not one of them of course but I appreciate the effort.
It is worth it, but only just. Headphones and something angry and bitchy like Linkin Park get me through the office hours.

Regards, David.

http://www.27bslash6.com/matthewsparty.html

Rainbow War!!

This is an award-winning short film that my brothers and sister and I used to watch all the time when I was younger. The interesting part is that the moral has a timeless relevance.

Everybody needs a little Rainbow War in their lives!

RAINBOW WAR
Uploaded by edwardhp

My Histerical Father

Oh, just a random convo I had with my dad today, edited for readability (Toby) *HUGS*. I think this is the first time he's ever used Google Chat. I love my dad and he makes me laugh a lot. Today, I share this laughter with you! Enjoy.



greg: is this what you do most of the day, talk on Goog IM?
I am now in a health club. They have a 50 meter outdoor pool. Every tech workout thingy you can imagine.

me: this dude just came in (the celeb that's doing voiceover work) and I didn't realize it was someone I didn't know cuz he was with this girl Kim who I work with, so I just greeted him like I would everyone else that works here - with a BIG "HI!" and I think he was taken aback by it
greg: you terrified him!
greg: must be faggy
me: oh dad.....
greg: hehe
sad but true
me: it's a possibility
greg: unremote
I guess texting can be better than the phone! You can say really big words!
and not be scorned for it

me: OH I signed up for benefits last night!
greg: haha, benefits
The only one that matters any more is the health insurance
even dental ins sucks
greg: if you are around for a while they will probably add a pension benefit, but maybe not the world is changing so fast
me: they offer a 401K...is that what you mean
greg: do they contribute?
me: I'm pretty sure
greg: well, then that's better than a stick in the eye, for sure
LOL texting is fun!
this is like a chat room
I know, it's not really "texting"
which is cell phone based
where the keypad is made for smaller midgets

me: dad, you are toooo funny
texting is fun
you can have an entire conversation without ever making any REAL emotional connections as well as censor what you say
greg: you can also fart loudly in the middle of a conversation and no one knows it
me: LOL
greg: yea, well, I get paid to be funny
like Carlin
only less pay
greg: much less
but he's dead, so who won?
me: i get paid to be nice to people
greg: gotta love being paid to be nice
that is really HARD work
greg: I HATE being nice.
It makes me constipated
me: lol
greg: I wish I had laser guns installed next to my car's headlights.


greg: we might have found a car for gus
me: he has a license???
greg: haha, no license yet
a 1994 Toyota Camry
well, it has a great body, but the brain is a bit snaggled, like a girl I used to know
me: LOL
greg: he could put REverb into it
that's what we had before stereo

me: that dude just asked me where the bathroom is
I apologized for pouncing on him earlier
greg: is he worth pouncing on?
me: he reads gay to me
but possibly
greg: told ya
greg: I can tell from 200 miles away
greg: my gay meter read 100%
yea, I had a gay black guy on my train ride up to Paso when I got here
When I mentioned SF, his ears really perked up
me: omg
dad
greg: I mean, I was sitting next to him!
LOL
me: hahahahaha
greg: OMFG
me: LOL



(This followed with a 10-minute span of my dad telling me to google things like "katy is a big" or "la sucks" etc.)